Droid are absolutely hackable in the Star Wars Universe, especially by other droids. It's a difficult process, and not possible to do remotely (without very specialized hardware on both ends), but it can be done.
The seventh book of the X-Wing Series, Solo Command features this as a major plot point.
Lara Nostil (in reality, the former Imperial slicer/spy/infiltrator Gara Petothel) after having been discovered and fleeing the Wraiths
finds herself aboard the Iron Fist, in a position of limited trust and under moderate surveillance. She brings her X-Wing with her, as well as
Tonin, her R2 unit
though his memory has been wiped. This, however, proves to be a facade, as
Lara actually set him up with a memory backup
Working together, they attempt to take down the Iron Fist. The single most significant portion of this is not
Lara/Gara hacking the ships systems
but rather
Tonin ordering his legions of subverted and specialized Mouse Droids to start tearing apart the ship's systems, including communications and hyper drive.
The book actually has at least one significant portion of a chapter devoted to
Tonin enticing, capturing, and hacking the other droids.
The reprogramming is quite successful, and it works extremely well.
Since we have thus seen that droids can be accessed (and we also see the droids being used as spies, playing back their visual records for her) it stands to reason that 3P0 could have been sliced at Cloud City, had the Imperials cared enough to do so (they didn't, and may not have had the technical specialists it would have required on hand). It cannot, however, be done wirelessly, so your other scenarios would not have been practical.
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